Topic: Death Cab For Cutie

Very rarely does a band’s style and sound get so ingrained with fans expectations of the output that the band, that the emotional prowess of the songwriting, becomes the calling card. Death Cab for Cutie has legions of obsessive fans that live and die through principle songwriter Ben Gibbard’s music so much, that there were doubts cast when he got married, and moved to sunny L.A. vs. staying in melodramatic Seattle where he grew up. People thought the music would suffer, they thought the droning absolution to miserable artistic solitude would be forever gone with his new lease on life. The results, thankfully are not what was expected. They’re exceeded, largely. Continue...